Well thanks for da quick answer.. i think this closes the deal "There is also a chance for you computer to catch on fire, and some of the materials to melt together into a lotto coupon with winning numbers on (and a valid barcode), but it just won't happen because of the chance is so unbelievable small (it's the same with the "click and generate another persons bitcoin address")."

Well thanks for da quick answer.. i think this closes the deal "There is also a chance for you computer to catch on fire, and some of the materials to melt together into a lotto coupon with winning numbers on (and a valid barcode), but it just won't happen because of the chance is so unbelievable small (it's the same with the "click and generate another persons bitcoin address")."

how complicated is to build a wallet generator, which will generate you adresses till you hit the jackpot ? is it even possible ?

To answer the first part of that... no, it's not complicated at all. All private keys are 256 bits. Just start at a reasonable number (or even at the lowest possible private key, which is think is 1,) and calculate it's public key and address. Check for prior funding to the address. If empty, add 1 to the private key and repeat. Hit Ctrl-C when thoroughly bored.

You won't get rich, but it might be a useful exercise in coding key generation.

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Incredibly easy and incredibly worthless. If you managed to get an address that someone had already generated (which is so unlikely it is relatively impossible), it would likely be an address that you yourself had mass generated.

brain wallet mining is apparently really profitable. i guess the majority of people don't realize that the first round hash of "this is a super secure passphrase because it's long" has less entropy than they think it does.

The probability of finding a private key to a specific address is the same probability of finding a hash of all zeroes. I don't know what the lowest hash found to date is (maybe 17 leading zeroes of of 64?), but its not even close. You'll need to have computing power many trillion-trillion times more powerful than the current bitcoin network, and a few trillion-trillion+ years to run it.

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